Agatha Christie

The Mousetrap

The Mousetrap

★★★☆☆ Sturdy nostalgia:
There may be nothing new in the latest touring version of the institution that is Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap, but the production gives its large audiences exactly what they are looking for.

Oct 28 2014 | By | 1 Reply More
Agatha Christie’s Black Coffee – Review

Agatha Christie’s Black Coffee – Review

It’s ✭✭✭✭✩ classy, classis Christie as the The Agatha Christie Theatre Company return to the King’s with the Queen of Crime’s only play to feature Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, says Martin Gray.

Mar 25 2014 | By | Reply More
Review – Agatha Christie’s Go Back for Murder

Review – Agatha Christie’s Go Back for Murder

Emigrant Carla Le Marchant is back in the UK from Canada to tie up some business before she weds – who killed her philandering father? The Agatha Christie Theatre Company presents a production of the queen of crime’s classic Go Back For Murder.

Feb 15 2013 | By | Reply More
Review – The Mousetrap

Review – The Mousetrap

★★★☆☆ Museum piece:

It’s a plucky little touring production of the Mousetrap that has fetched up at the King’s theatre all this week. As any one of its characters might observe – in Home Counties tones so impeccably clipped that they are positively italicised – “the old gall’s got a lot of go in her yet”.

Oct 30 2012 | By | 1 Reply More
A Murder Is Posed

A Murder Is Posed

Photo by Robert Fuller The full cast, from left to right:

Mar 16 2012 | By | Reply More
Review – A Murder is Announced

Review – A Murder is Announced

* * * Church Hill Theatre Review by Thom Dibdin Intimations of a murder are announced with all due deference to plot, twists and true red herrings up at the Church Hill Theatre in EPT’s new  production of Agatha Christie’s A Murder Is Announced. Adapted by Leslie Darbon from Christie’s novel, the play is a […]

Mar 15 2012 | By | 1 Reply More
Æ Review – Agatha Christie’s The Hollow

Æ Review – Agatha Christie’s The Hollow

★★☆☆☆

There is nothing sleepy about the Hollow to which the Angkatells have retired in this country house weekend murder mystery from the Makars, which is at Adam House until Saturday.

Nov 27 2009 | By | Reply More